[CUBE] powerlogix-europe.com

[Meirion Roscoe]

Hear-hear.  Well said.  I am fed up of being ripped off by UK PLC and  
unscrupulous companies that take advantage of this situation.  I have a  
friend in the States and that is how I get my stuff.  Not illegal, just  
tactical.  That powerlogix upgrade does look tempting doesn't it?

Rossi


On Thursday, Mar 6, 2003, at 03:22 Europe/London, John Allan wrote:

> And so who are these people cruising around the internet taking folks  
> credit
> card details!?!
>
> Magnus,
>
> you have to find a friend in the US to buy one from OWC for you, strip  
> the
> thing out of the box and ship it privately via USPS Global Priority to  
> you
> as a gift.
>
> Otherwise you are going to get hit by VAT *AND* a nice obligatory "  
> handling
> charge " by DHL or UPS which together will just about knock out the
> difference between buying from them and buying from one of the European
> sharks.
>
> [ The couriers make more profit out of that handling charge than they  
> do
> shipping it transatlantic ].
>
> What is it about Importers that they really think they can add on 50%  
> to US
> prices and expect items to sell?
>
> American companies have been making this mistake for so long in the UK  
> of
> using a one dollar equals one pound ratio. And Mac companies so ready  
> to rip
> the love blind MacHeads off.
>
> Only Sonnet seems to have been able to keep the lid on this recently  
> as far
> as I can see.
>
> For example : for Cube
>
> Powerlogix 1 Gig upgrade from Cancom UK :    GBP 656     USD   1017
>
> Powerlogix 1 Gig upgrade from OWC                  GBP  316     USD     
>  490
>
> For the difference I could fly to New York, have a free holiday and  
> pick it
> up myself. It really does not cost any more to ship something from CA  
> to NYC
> and shipping from OWC to the UK is faster and more efficient than using
> *ANY* bozo UK distributor. [ can these figures REALLY be right? See  
> below ]
>
> My bet is that one day some German outfit will suss this out and wipe  
> the
> Euro Mac market clean. UK companies are so crap.
>
> Cancom even advertise a PowerLogix PowerForce Dual G4 1.2GHz for Apple  
> Cube
> Mac !
>
> John
>
>> Made4Macs is no longer our Euro distributor....they do not have any  
>> product.
>>
>>> http://www.powerlogix-europe.com
>>>
>>> Which is really made4macs
>>>
>>
>> --  
>> ----
>> PowerLogix
>
>
> http://www.cancomuk.com/products/ 
> searchresults.lasso?code=50508&show_detail=
> PowerLogix%20PowerForce%20Dual%20G4%201.2GHz%20for%20Apple%20Cube%20%20 
> Mac%2
> 0&fromlist=yes
>
> http://eshop.macsales.com/MyOWC/ 
> Upgrades.cfm?model=128&type=Acceleration&TI=
> %23TimeFormat%28Now%28%29%2C+&shoupgrds=Show+Upgrades
>
>
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